Wyandot Park
Riverside Drive at Lane Road

Chief Leatherlips' Monument on Riverside Drive in Dublin

Jim Thompson, chairperson of the Linworth United Methodist Church Historical Society, will speak to the Big Walnut Historical Society on June 17 on his research on the Last of the Wyandots, Indian Wild Bill Moose.  The meeting begins at 7:30 in the Myers Inn on the south west corner of Sunbury square.

Moose and his family came to the area near the current Columbus Zoo to pay tribute to Wyandot Chief Shateyaronyah commonly known as Leatherlips who was executed near where the Leatherlips Monument is located just south of the zoo.  Moose moved to that area from his Wyandot Village home at Upper Sandusky. 

Wild Bill Moose traveled with the Sells Brothers-Floto Circus for 9 years and became acquainted with Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and Frank Butler who were also with the circus for a time.  The July 6 Buffalo Bill Wild West Show Reenactment Bicentennial Signature Event in Sunbury, will have a person portraying Wild Bill Moose.

Drawing of Bill Moose by Dick Hoke
Photos by Suzanne Allen